ARRAKIS Ltd.

I am Borat Guereen and I officially announce running for CSM10 office to represent the little guys, the ones that truly play solo or with a very close knit group of Friends.

I am one of the alts of a player that has been in the game for more than 5 years, and has been living the solo Eve lifestyle successfully for more than a year now, after going through various experiences ranging from living in low sec, null sec and wormholes. I have little experience in high sec, being neither a missioner, industrialist, hauler, trader or ganker. My focus is around regular PvP, I have FCed small fleets, explored unknown territories, scanned signatures and flew (and lost at least once) most of the sub-caps. I do not PvP for the killboard, but for the thrill of the hunt. I have been part of the blue donut in null sec twice, and have been one of the lemmings for each of the main sides. I never flew capitals, as I never saw them as the ultimate end-game, and anyway flying caps has little interest for me in the current state of power-blocks controlled null sec. Even if I participated to B-R5RB I do my best now to avoid TiDI as much as possible, and am not a big fan of very large fleet fights in their current form.

Playing solo does not mean having only one character. Eve does not work that way, and I have a few alts of my own. They are not scattered across New Eden, but are all part of my small team to provide some reasonable control over the small corner of space I call home. I do not have any batphone, nor do I have alts embedded into various different groups. Within Chao3, I am spearheading a new type of players' coalition for New Eden, with some light role playing to spice up our actions in game and make it mesh with the lore. As the speaker of Chao3, I have chosen to represent the Freedom Fighters of New Eden.

As a CSM representative though, I would represent the interests of all of you that can identify to some or all of my experiences.

As a RL person, I am an open minded american citizen living on the US west coast, and of french origin. I have spent half of my life in Europe and the other half in the US. I am working in IT and project management and I have my own company. Being master of my schedule allows me to have the capacity and organization skills to work for the CSM while keeping my RL on track. Eve is my main gaming hobby, and has been for these past 5 years.

Enough said about me and my alt(s).

I believe the CSM is a valuable interface with CCP, and I believe CCP has recently shown great boldness in the steps taken with the last releases. My only agenda is to help the game cater to solo or small groups more, without breaking the dynamics of the sandbox which makes EVE the unique game that it is.

Hoplite Brigade

Ushra'Khan

- CSM representatives can only be elected once. This is important to make sure the CSM seats truly represent all players each year and does not become a stagnant pool of power players.

To me this seems like a bad idea considering the time it seem to take new CSM to get into the flow of their new responsibilities and figuring out who to contact when and where.

Borat Guereen wrote:

- Request that all players link all their alts publicly, with a slight change in the EULA

And this point I also have issue with, I actually find it a fun part of the game to try and figure out alts and trying to trace groups. Forcing players to be open about all their alts would be a terrible for anyone wanting to play as a spy.

If you have a hard time cutting ties to groups there is no clean slate for you either as all your other characters are readily available for the world to see.

To me this seems like a bad idea considering the time it seem to take new CSM to get into the flow of their new responsibilities and figuring out who to contact when and where.

I certainly understand that one can not like the idea, but I do not believe that nothing can be achieved in one year by lack of contact information. If this is actually a problem, then a revolving tenure of two years, with half of the members elected each year, would address it. My maIn point is to have only one tenure per player.

Kaea Astridsson wrote:

And this point I also have issue with, I actually find it a fun part of the game to try and figure out alts and trying to trace groups. Forcing players to be open about all their alts would be a terrible for anyone wanting to play as a spy.

The current situation gives a significant advantage to players with a lot of financial resources. They are the ones that can afford mu'tiple accounts to, amongst other things, infiltrate other groups, hidden by the current system. It is thus very easy to spy if you have the means. Nothing would prevent a player to be a spy even if the alts are made public. it just makes it more difficult for a few high ressources players to fully control their spy network.

I am glad to see you are in favor of plublicly displaying all alts of a player, as you would only vote for someone knowing the alt you want to see.

There is no reason for me to put out my alts out at the moment, and this is part of my program. So surely you can get behind that to vote for me. If indeed the disclosing of alts become public, as I am supporting, then you will be able to see all my alts. Everyone applying for the CSM put forward their public alt, so there is no difference... Unless you prefer judging a candidate not on the ideas they support but on some other base. I prefer focusing on ideas myself.

Thanks to Cap Stable for the opportunity to drill down in my program for CSM X.

A few things about stuff I said,that I wanted to clarify

- I mentioned combat cov ops, I meant combat recons. oopsie.

- I want to adjust my terminology, to represent solo players and micro-corps, rather tham small corps. I believe small corps and small gangs already have had representation in the CSM (Ripart Teg comes to mind...), and have slightly different agendas. The solo players and corps composed of only a handful of players fit better into the denomination of micro-corps.

- On the question about if I could change one thing in the game, I went with the way interceptors can stay under the one second tic align, and travel too easily across New Eden. I think there is a more important issue that unfortunately did not come to my mind immediately, but it is about afk cloaky camping. I believe that this practice is detrimental to the game, and I would change that by having cloaked pilots not show in local, and unable themselves to see local or to use d-scan while cloaked.

I wish an excellent year 2015 to all capsuleers and fellow players of Eve.

I am convinced that 2015 will be a great year for Eve, as CCP boldly moves forward with new changes (especially sovereignty changes) after showing to all that that there are no sacred cows anymore, outside of the fact that Eve Online must continue to remain the complex (but not just for the sake of complexity), challenging and overall captivating MMO that it currently has been for 10 years.

The CSM X will be in the position to accompany these changes and represent the current community in so doing. The mysteries of Caroline's star, the unidentified invisible structures and roaming sleepers, the introduction of Thera and non colonisable wormholes, the rule changes on clones upgrade, wormholes being more dangerous and exciting again, upgraded Industry and UIs, Jump fatigue, graphic updates and many other recent changes have, in my mind, revitalised the game already.Regardless of who ends up being elected, I salute my fellow candidates and wish whoever ends up being elected a great tenure on CSM X in 2015.